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Mineral Resources and Energy
Committee Report on Mineral Resources Budget
13 Apr 2016
The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources met to consider the Draft Report on Mineral Resources on the strategic plan and budget vote 29 of the Department of Mineral Resources for the 2016/2017 Financial year.
The Chairperson quickly took Members through the report, stopping only where there was a point raised ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Minister introduces Department of Mineral Resources 2016 Annual Performance Plan
5 Apr 2016
The Minister and the Department on Mineral Resources (DMR) presented the DMR’s Annual Performance Plan and Budget for 2016/17. In the presentation the DMR discussed its strategic overview, including the mandate, vision and mission; a situational analysis of the sector; and an overview of the 2016/17 APP, budget and MTEF ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources budget and performance plans 2016: Financial & Fiscal Commission, Department Planning Monitoring & Evaluation assessment
16 Mar 2016
The Chairperson expressed his condolences and prayers to the families of the trapped miners at the Lily Mine. The Committee received briefings from the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) and the Committee Researcher giving an analysis and commentary on the Annual Performance ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources on job losses agreement, in presence of Minister
2 Mar 2016
The Department of Mineral Resources, with the Minister also present, noted that there had been a declining trend in mining employment dating back to 1986. The employment trends in the mining industry between 1994 and 2014, surveyed for the three commodities of gold, coal and platinum, showed that coal had ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Committee 1st term programme; Mpumalanga oversight report, minutes adoption
3 Feb 2016
Documents handed out
Draft first term committee programme
Draft Minutes of the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources 04 November 2015
The Committee started with a short discussion on some long-standing apologies from certain Committee Members and the Chairperson clarified that the reasons for the apologies needed to be given ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Committee Report on Mpumalanga oversight visit
4 Nov 2015
Document handed out: Oversight visit to Mpumalanga [Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published on the ATC]
The Committee met briefly to consider the report on the oversight visit to Mpumalanga; and adopt minutes of Committee meeting held on 21 October 2015. Members reviewed the oversight report and pointed ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Ex-mineworkers: oversight priorities; Committee Report on ex-mineworkers meeting in East London
28 Oct 2015
The Portfolio Committees on Mineral Resources and Labour met jointly to discuss oversight priorities for issues affecting ex-mineworkers. The Co-Chairperson set out the history of debates and discussions on ex-mineworkers, indicating that during the Taking Parliament to the People event in 2007, the Speaker had been approached by mineworkers, who ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Alignment with Industrial Policy Action Plan 6 (IPAP6): DMR briefing, New Development Plan with regards to beneficiation: DTI briefing
21 Oct 2015
The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), briefed the Committee on the alignment of the beneficiation activities located in the DMR with other programmes of government. In 2011, the beneficiation strategy had been adopted by government as policy, and it had provided a broader framework aimed at turning the country’s comparative ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Mineral Resources Budget Review and Recommendations Report
20 Oct 2015
BRRR Archive: BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The report presented for adoption was a summary of the various observations of the Portfolio Committee and the corresponding recommendations to all the issues noticed by the Committee in the course of carrying out its oversight function.
The Committee was not ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance
2 Sep 2015
The Committee Researcher briefed the Committee, prior to the presentation by the Department of Mineral Resources (the Department) on the 1st quarterly performance and expenditure report 2015, for the Department. The Department had generally done well on expenditure, but was showing 6% ‘lag’ in spending. The reason was largely due to ...